<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Greetings Dan,<br>Thank you for updating all of us on Gloria's status. I echo what Cheryl stated, that both of you were highly missed. Keeping both of you in my thoughts and prayers, and hoping for a speedy recovery</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- <br>Miranda b. Kilby</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ph: <a dir="ltr" href="tel:(352)942-0417" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">(352)942-0417</a></span></div></div><div><br>On Mar 24, 2018, at 4:53 PM, Sherrill O'Brien via NFBF-Tampa <<a href="mailto:nfbf-tampa@nfbnet.org">nfbf-tampa@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#44546A;}
span.EmailStyle19
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Dan and Gloria,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks much, Dan, for sending us this update, as we were all concerned and thinking of you both throughout the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m sorry you missed the meeting, as it was the biggest party in the history of our chapter (haha!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Well, maybe not quite, but we did have a good meeting, with lots of brainstorming about our state convention.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Take it easy, Gloria, and we know we’ll see you next month at Beefs, especially since it will be past that big day of April 15!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Sherrill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> NFBF-Tampa [<a href="mailto:nfbf-tampa-bounces@nfbnet.org">mailto:nfbf-tampa-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan Hicks via NFBF-Tampa<br><b>Sent:</b> March 24, 2018 4:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'NFB of Florida Tampa Chapter List'<br><b>Cc:</b> Dan Hicks<br><b>Subject:</b> [NFBF-Tampa] Sorry to miss the meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="color:black">Fellow Chapter members, </span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Gloria and I are sorry to have missed the chapter meeting. We were looking forward to attending. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Gloria woke up this morning with severe abdominal pain, nausea, and other complications. We went to the Emergency Room at Memorial Hospital where they started an IV, checked her, and ran tests. Her appendix is okay – we had feared complications with that – so this is a good thing. She probably has an infection, which is being treated. She is to rest and eat lightly for a couple of days and she should be fine. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you all for your concern. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dan Hicks, Treasurer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Tampa Bay Chapter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">National Federation of the Blind of Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> ― Abraham Lincoln<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>NFBF-Tampa mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:NFBF-Tampa@nfbnet.org">NFBF-Tampa@nfbnet.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbf-tampa_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbf-tampa_nfbnet.org</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBF-Tampa:</span><br><span><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbf-tampa_nfbnet.org/nfbf.tampa%40gmail.com">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbf-tampa_nfbnet.org/nfbf.tampa%40gmail.com</a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>